User:Fitzgerald Lee/-1/6-comma meantone

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-1/6-comma meantone is a tuning of meantone where the fifth is sharpened by 1/6 of the syntonic comma, producing a fifth of 705.539 cents. This is approximated well by 17edo using the 17c val.